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Lennart Poettering proposed adding a soft reboot mode to systemd.

Lennart Poettering has talked about preparing to add a soft-reboot mode ("systemctl soft-reboot") to the systemd system manager, which will only restart user space components without touching the Linux kernel. Compared to a regular reboot, it is expected that a soft-reboot will reduce downtime during updates of environments that use pre-built syste...

Alex · 09 May 2023 · 104

History Behind Ctrl-Alt-Delete and other key combinations?

It's been a long time since the days of command line computing, where we accomplished the vast majority of tasks with a keyboard and the use of a mouse was rare or unknown. But even though we're all used to pointing and clicking these days, plenty of...

Jacob Enderson · 09 August 2020 · 475